I always had a deep attraction toward rhythm and black music. Since I was a child, I looked for it around the world, feeling it in my soul like an older sister and a seducing goddess.During my journey at the discovery of great artists, I was astonished how they could access my deepest feelings guiding me toward unknown, hidden worlds.Opening the eyes and feeling the surprise. A raw feeling that made me part of a community like a musician playing for me. I began dancing wearing a black dress and dancing shoes like all the young girls and trying to bring the music to my feet. But singing...Express and learn to know yourself at the same time. Laying bare and give all you have. So, a few years later, even if I was painting and studying art at the Academy of Fine Arts, my heart, my thoughts and my nights were for music.For years, it has been my hiding place. Sometimes, I was looking for a private and unaccessible space where I could be with myself. I found it in that intimate world where music takes you and knows how to keep you company. Other times I was afraid, but music always wins and takes you back home.This is my way to celebrate music and say thank you. I produce music putting in hard work, joy, long nights, discussions with other artists, love, cooking and traveling. This is the reason why I starts to take these productions out of the studio. These are the dreams of many people who work with me.

" A fantastic album , one of the best productions of recent times. A job for anything Italian , but soaring towards a broader horizon , International, infused with many influences , where the watchword is" going beyond " , creating a unique blend and original, strongly personal and real , viscerally button and meaningful.Work inspired , volcanic sought in music , in the lyrics, interpreting , always ready to surprise the listener "(Musica e dischi)

" Summer is coming and this is the perfect album . Laura Falcinelli , aka Lawra , is a wonderful character : a figurative artist in the field , former vocalist of Jovanotti and Negrita , jazz musician , scholar of African music and with a track record of study of vocal technique . Laura is expressed with joy and versatility , contaminating soul, jazz , and suggestions "africanismi " south" in a theory of brilliant songs. a first striking " ( Blow Up )

" The author says that he wrote the songs thinking with " the heart of Italy , head to Europe , the soul in Africa . " And of those places you hear the rhythm to black music , which provides access to a trip with all the deepest feelings in other ways inaccessible worlds " ( Viva Verdi )

Lawra 's debut , is Tuscany (real name Laura Falcinelli ) and is backed by extensive work by a chorister Negrita and among others."Origin " is a beautiful work of Italian fusion of pop , soul (often not far from the elegance and sophistication of Sade ) , funk, jazz , hip hop, African and Caribbean sounds .A melting pot sound dense and intense, full of strong flavors , on which the item is produced in Lawra sparks .The quality of the compositions and arrangements is very high and does not fear comparisons with the best productions . Excellent .( Radiocoop.it )

Debut album for Lawra , aka Laura Falcinelli , former vocalist for Negrita and many others. The watchword of "Origin " is contamination : soul, funk , reggae and passion for Africa ( Lawra is a city of Ghana is famous for its musical ferment ) echo along the ten songs produced by Francesco Rossi.The album opens with a bomb funk -rock like "Welcome To My Country " , and continues with beautiful songs like " I Want You Baby " , Diana Ross soul , or the soft Afrikan Eyes , complete with a refrain in Lingala , the language of the Congo. Mention also for " Underground Soldiers" song with an almost psychedelic , the Temptation of Norman Whitfield sung by Donna Summer .Great record this "Origin " . Also in Italy we have our soul woman.(Kd Cobain )

"Contamination ... funk (with a beautiful voice," black ", but it fits very well to other genres), electronics (which works particularly well for the ability to vocalist), boundaries (the album of Lawra no longer exist: one starts from an Italy shattered and without energy, in the initial Welcome to my country, and then travels to exotic destinations, not just a holiday but to integrate them into our reality), Africa (there is so much throughout the album), BBCiCO "Z (the vocalist is present in seven out of ten tracks), sophistication, alternation (of genres, including a song and another, in way to explore the variety of worlds songwriter) .. "(AsapFanzine)

LAURA FALCINELLI - BiographyA soul which seems to come out straight from a novel of Jorge Amado, the Bahiana more Bahiana of Bahia.An entire cultural universe lies behind her, made of involving experiences, contaminations and colours.Laura came in contact to this world almost unconsciously while listening to her grandfather playing, then started to perform, getting fascinated from blues and jazz, working with musicians and experiencing the creative freedom typical of the improvisation.The magic that surrounds her, the art of morphing sound and melody, make her a kind of alchemist, a symbol of psychological metamorphosis and spiritual evolution of mankind, made possible by the power of music.The choice of creating a microcosm in Tuscan with a downright extended family of artists, blending sonority of jazz, soul, rap, hip hop, reggae, funky and electronic music, is the proof of the will to put together, more simply, the four aristotelian elements: fire, water, earth and air. An ensamble of energy and intensity, where besides music you feel the warmth and vitality of far away lands.Her artisticals dimension breaks stereotypes and models trough a cultural research and an experimentation now making part of her human and spiritual baggage.In 2000 she entered the contest Sanremo Giovani.Graduated at Academy of Fine Arts in Florence, she collaborates with artists like Negrita, Gianna Nannini, Jovanotti,Biagio Antonacci.The release of Laura's album has as artistic producer Francesco Rossi (Paper Aeroplane, winner track of the Season DJ Awards 2013)With the participation of international musicians including Fabio Morgera (Norah Jones, Maxwell, etc.), Francesco "Cico" Quadri (Roy Paci, Negrita, etc.), Itaiata de Sà (Negrita, Daniela Mercury, Roy Paci, etc.), Andrea Neri, Maurizio Bozzi-Bozorius, Guglielmo Ridolfo Gagliano (P. Benvegnù), Daniele Cerofolini, Alessandro Cristofori (also arranger of some songs), Diego Perugini, Guido Pietrella, Gianluca Meconcelli, Marco Pezzola, Marco Fanciullini, Nicola Ferri, Larry Ceroni, Gabriele Giovannini, Roberto Bichi, Roberto MagnanensiArrangements & recording: Gianluca Valdarnini (Negrita, Roy Paci, etc.) Recorded at Presslab Studio Mixed at Loris Ceroni's Le Dune Studio and Lorenzo Tommasini's Macinarino StudioMix by Loris CeroniMix studio assistant: Gianluca ValdarniniMix of Paris & Afro Booty: Paolo Alberta Pre-mix of So Fine & Africa: David Giacchè

"Artists must be fair and must be brave, at least that I believe. I thought I might not be something that others expected of me. I prefer to be what they are, even in my many forms. My grandfather played mandolin, banjo and accordion, my great-grandfather used to sing in church. I started doing ballet in five years and I have always listened to soul and funk ... then jazz and electronics. We say that it was obvious that I was a shaken box genres ... "

It 'a rainy Sunday in March to Arezzo. Ilaria and I have an appointment with Laura in mid-afternoon to the study of Maurizio Bozzi (ed musician); allow us to invade their space while they're still trying. The music feels Upon entering the first entrance, while Laura's voice is felt later and predominates on the instruments. One Sunday 'type' in Arezzo: somewhere in the gray wet and anonymous streets, open a door and find energy to incubate.We move among the room instruments and a series of electric guitars brings together our looks. While Ilaria begins to draw out his equipment, Laura and the musicians comment on the songs and feel. The atmosphere is super relaxed, the pieces follow each other and I try to find a common thread between the music and the voice, the expression of Laura while singing and the idea that I got her in over fifteen years that I follow his artistic career. A complex figure who can move very naturally between the genders, that in itself brings an authentic creativity because original and original, that is not driven by artifice, but by passion.Between a piece and another throw there some questions to better understand where to roam, where to look for the best answers to outline the artistic personality of Laura, the meaning of his experience, the secret to fulfill the dreams. That's what it came out. While rework the lyrics, in front of my mac monitor, in the background Angela Mccluskey interprets Do not Explain Billie Holiday.

Your path through the music starts several years ago. Bring along since your childhood artistic training articulated before the ballet and painting, and today we see you a singer, musician and creator of jewelry that carry your name, following the family tradition. Your passion for soul and jazz you have drive to experience and write songs ... Thinking about your music and your jewelry exudes the taste of "contamination" because it is not separate elements, but of sedimentation of ideas and different developments directions. What arising from your creativity and the need to express it in many forms?I've always been curious, write, create, sing ... is a 'need, a kind of therapy. A magical place where to draw, but at the same time saves you, it protects you. I was a little girl who loved music, and I grew up exploring the music, art. I have lived many different experiences and all this has become a wealth of sensations where I go to take the binder between what I see outside myself, watching other artists, life, and then I mix all this with things that belong to me. Many things inspire me, many things fascinate me and I try to build from these dreams, these thoughts, something to give back to others.

Between your experiences, participation at The Festival di Sanremo, a stage in your career that has since developed into multiple horizons. You have chosen to make a refined and cultured music, combining different genres and that tends to a universal result, which exceeds the genres and classifications. In artistic jargon doing "research" and this goes a bit 'against trade rules and pop trends: what does it mean to choose the most difficult path?Artists must be fair and must be brave, at least that I think. I thought I might not be something that others expected of me. I prefer to be what they are, even in my many forms. My grandfather played mandolin, banjo and accordion, my great-grandfather used to sing in church. I started doing ballet in five years and I have always listened to soul and funk ... then jazz and electronics. Let's say that it was obvious that I was a shaken box of sorts ... I have worked with so many artists and everyone has given me his vision of music, which I absorbed, observed and interpreted in my own way. This also applies to my creations, my jewelry, which speak of all the things I love, are symbols of the beauty that I see in the world.

"Maybe we are not aware even of how great our heritage, and we assume that there is beauty, there is. Building. Is not so"

The idea of art is a concept very dilated and therefore difficult to define, but we are certain that making art is very complex. Especially in Italy where the great tradition can be at the same time support and limit. What it means to be an artist in Italy? And what do you find different when instead you relationships abroad? Pros and cons.Italy gives you his immense beauty: who, more than one Italian has the fortune to have at hand so much art, wonder and culture? Maybe we are not aware even of how great our heritage, and we assume that there is beauty, there is. Property. However it is not: just look at the cultural impoverishment of this country, and how little they valued the talent and merit. A difficult country Italy, even more for a musician or an artist, often seen as superfluous.

Arezzo, your city, a breeding ground for young talent in various fields and could probably give more results if it were managed with greater awareness. Do you believe that one of the causes of the difficulties in expressing the potential of this city there is a lack of awareness and the consequent desire to believe? I refer to many talents that find their way should go away from Arezzo and that invariably find it elsewhere with success.That's right. Very often it is necessary to leave to be recognized. Sad to say, but it's true. In Arezzo there are lots of talents, it is a shame that there are not the resources or the will to make them grow. But this return is, it is a problem all Italian. Groups of power, always the same, that run is not always the most deserving.

You believe in doing in the local area system, since you've collaborated and collaborate with different artists including Arezzo Francesco Rossi, Negrita, Maurizio Bozzi and Fabrizio Simoncioni ... Joining forces can deliver more than to follow their separate ways and maybe draw between the neighboring resources optimizes the work?The comparison is very inspiring, is a source of inspiration, encounter and also growth. I often listen to artists that I like, and the first thing I think is: it would be great to work with this person. I do not like the competition, I love the collaboration. Francesco Rossi has become the international manufacturer it is today and I have learned a lot from him all these years ... as Maurizio Bozzi, jazz great, or super sound engineer Fabrizio Simoncioni. In short, I should mention many people, special, unique. Every time I found out something about me, the music that I love to do, even through their experiences.

"My family believed in me, has spurred me to seek the beauty of things, with dedication and discipline"

Those who believed in you when you've had in your path, as everyone has, moreover, moments of doubt in your profession? What role did your family in your choices?My family believed in me, has spurred me to seek the beauty of things, with dedication and discipline, but they were also very taken by their work and I could be free to grow and take my time, not having to prove anything to nobody. Having a spirit rather independent, my choices, good or bad, have always been my own bag. Instead, in the most difficult moments, the true friends have always continued to encourage me and also my family, which left me free to believe in my dreams.

Who would you like to especially thank for having supported and encouraged to become the Laura you are today?All those who have inspired me with their beauty, art, energy, gentleness, friendship, love. All those who have made me feel good, one way or another. Surely my mother, with his strength and his great passion and energy. Who taught me something, or many things, or who raised me in a moment when I was fragile, and has made me feel stronger. The music, the artists, who are open to the world and welcome more than the world sometimes returns. This is a trait common to very creative people think. They need to give.

Laura Falcinelli aka Lawra, an acronym that is about you, your mother Wilma and your ties with Africa, because Lawra is also the name of a Ghanaian city known for the manufacture of musical instruments. It seems an ancestral bond.Actually I was looking for a name for this musical experiment, my first album, and I wanted to thank my mother Wilma and only after I discovered this thing, which is one of Ghana Lawra city famous for the construction of musical instruments, it seemed perfect! I who love the rhythm, jazz, soul, blues, black music ... I had found a suitable name to the project of my album "Origin", which by the way is full of these kinds.

"No one should feel wrong against a passion"

What do you feel to be able to suggest to someone like you feel this strong urge to art, to communicate and to express, but for fear threatens to stifle these outbursts? Want to share the thought that pushes you forward to new successes and new challenges?To create; to have passion for anything ... to try, to have courage, to listen; not to compete, but to build, get your hands dirty ... and not feel too old, wrong, too young, too much or too little. No one should feel wrong against a passion, just to be curious, to be open, to remember the boy or girl you were and to get back to play ..

Finally, after overcoming your limits and then after you've thrown in sometimes without certainties projects, but then they brought the expected results, what you can say that you have learned? How do I manage my dreams so that we can achieve?Good questions Francesca ... (Ed smiles) this then encompasses many things really. The dreams you dream, you write, should make us move, make us feel inside the universe in the right way, make us feel that we are in the right place ... if only for a few moments. Then again ... but dreams are the engine, the soul of things. Then you have to work hard, sometimes solo, sometimes against the wind, which is why the friends count, because a good word at the right time can awaken the dream, does it return to the front line, when so many things are trying to do it away from you. I would say: you dream, you have courage and started! Anyone can create, everyone. Without exception.

"The dreams you dream, you write, should make us move, make us feel inside the universe in the right way, make us feel that we are in the right place ..."

LAURA FALCINELLI

Born in Arezzo where he lives and works, he graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence in painting. Among the artistic collaborations Biagio Antonacci, Negrita, Gianna Nannini, Jovanotti, Francesco Rossi, Max Weinberg and Roy Bittan of the E Street Band, the RAI Orchestra. In 2000 she participated in Sanremo Giovani. With "Bozorius" won album of the year to L.A. Music Awards 2006 in the category "New Jazz", nominated for "Artist of the Year", with the song "Very Nice" was nominated for "Single of the Year" in the Latin category.He studied singing for a few years with Slaska Tasckova Paoletti, he attended courses in singing, harmony and history of Afro-American music at St. Louis in Rome. For some years he has participated in the Berklee Clinics at Umbria Jazz. He attended for one year the music being together, a professor Danilo Rea at Siena Jazz. He studied jazz singing with Stefania Scarinzi and Elizabeth Antolini. He Attended seminars in jazz improvisation held by Shirley Jordane Vana Gierig. The choice to recreate a microcosm in the Tuscan reality with a real extended family of artists, blending jazz, soul, rap, hip hop, reggae, funk and electronics, is proof of the will to mix, more simply, the four Aristotelian elements: fire, water, earth, air. A hybridisation of energy and intensity, where in addition to the music, you feel the warmth and vitality of distant lands. His artistic dimension breaks stereotypes and models through a cultural research and experimentation that are now part of his human and spiritual baggage. She's a Jewelry design.